Full course description
Course Overview
Course offers introduction into specific properties of printing inks for processes such as non-impart printing, offset lithography, flexography, rotogravure, and screen printing. It will familiarize students with composition of water based, solvent-based, and energy curable inks, ink manufacturing, and quality control. It will discuss sustainable and lean ink manufacturing practices, recycling, reformulation, and remanufacturing of press return inks. It will discuss detachment and removal of printing inks from recycled fibers using chemical and mechanical treatment for increased paper remanufacturing. Course is designed for freshly graduated engineers and technicians in paper and printing industries.
Learning Objectives
- Recognize various printing processes and chemistry and technology of printing inks, and their individual components.
- Staying current with lean and sustainable ink manufacturing processes.
- Explore and understand ink formulation, manufacture, testing, and reformulating.
- Appreciate printing inks in order to develop new routes of their reusing, recycling, and remaking into new products.